Firms
[fə:mz]
Definition
(a.) The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together.
Editor: Ronda
Examples
- Those firms which had not previously used direct-by-mail advertising were now coming to realize the many advantages of that modern selling short-cut and were compiling large lists of names. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Firms having mailing lists were increasing them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Many firms, large and small, throughout the country were using and recommending the chain addressograph. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When the war over the twine-binder ended there were only twenty-two competing firms left; before that there had been over a hundred. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Through a cousin who works with Gelder, he found out the retail firms who had bought the busts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It had one main entrance from the street to a hallway, from which entrance to the offices of two prominent broker firms was obtained. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Priority was claimed by two firms of spectacle-makers in Middelburg, Holland, namely, Zacharias, miscal led Jansen, and Lippershey. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But, with the advent of large lists, the high cost of rubber type presented a serious objection to many firms regarding the installation of the addressograph. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Ronda